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WorksheetsPAPWH Semester 1 Exam Review
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
The real change during the Neolithic Age was
making tools out of metal
the shift from hunting and gathering to growing food
making tools out of stone
using fire to cook
The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that humans
had less control over their environment.
could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities.
could use animals as pets.
could use fire to cook their food.
Food surpluses in the Neolithic farming village of Catalhuyuk
made it possible for people to do things other than farming
made the village susceptible to raids from nomadic tribes
were not stored properly and spoiled, so people starved to death
caused the entire population to stop farming
The term Homo Erectus means which of the following?
Wise, wise human
Upright human
Tall Human
Old Stone
The Neolithic Revolution can best be described as
a political conflict between the Neolithic and Paleolithic peoples.
the result of the youth taking control of the the tribes.
the growing of crops and the taming of food-producing animals by early humans.
the use of fire by early humans to change their environment.
Farming in ancient Mesopotamia resulted in an abundance of food, as a result it------
often rotted then caused widespread illness.
enabled the civilization to emerge and grow.
caused overpopulation.
produced inflation.
The first empire in world history was the ________________ Empire.
Eskimo
Sumerian
Akkadian
British
Hammurabi is remembered for
inventing the first wooden bicycle.
his law code, a collection of 282 laws.
creating a post office.
overthrowing the Akkadian Empire.
Hieratic script, a simplified version of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, was used
by peasants, who were too uneducated to read.
only by the nobles, as a way of communicating with the gods.
by the blind, as a type of braille.
for business transactions, record keeping, and the general needs of daily life.
Cyrus the Great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that
he was executed.
everyone accepted him as ruler.
he was worshiped as a god.
he conquered Africa.
Which leader of the Persian Empire extended it to become the largest empire the world had yet seen?
Moses
Marc Antony
Darius
Nebuchadnezzar
Which of the following elements contributed to the efficient system of communication that was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire?
Well-maintained roads and stations provided help and rest for the king’s messengers.
Trained dogs carried messages to the king as far as five hundred miles away.
An alphabet that was made up of ten letters.
A complicated series of smoke signal messages.
A theocracy is a government in which
leaders rule by divine authority.
the military ruled the people.
only women could rule.
a council of elders makes all the laws.
The invention of cuneiform is credited to
Odysseus.
the Sumerians.
the Phoenicians.
the Spanish.
India's ___________________ was created by the Aryans.
sewer system
music
educational system
caste system
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
ruler of the Aryans around 1500 B.C.
founder of Buddhism
ruler of the Harrappans
king of India
The rulers of the Zhou dynasty claimed it ruled China because
It had the Mandate of Heaven
It had an army of artists
Zhou ancestors had chosen it
The Mongols feared it
An important concept that became a crucial part of Chinese history was
The view that art, poetry, and literature were important to soldiers.
The Confucian belief that the government should be open to all men of superior talent.
The belief that the Great Wall would protect China from all enemies.
The Shaolin view that one must be able to combat mentally as well as physically.
The Qin dynasty created the censorate, a part of the central bureaucracy that
maintained the religious purity of all houses in China.
created algebraic equations all day.
had the sole responsibility of burning all books that opposed the Confucian philosophy.
had inspectors who checked on government officials t o make sure they were doing their job.
Qin Shihuangdi unified the Chinese world in part by
conquering Russia.
negotiating a peace with Syria.
creating a single monetary system and ordering the building of a system of roads.
building a complex series of long canals.
One of the technological advances of the Han Dynasty was
the umbrella.
the invention of water mills, for grinding grain.
a decimal system of counting in tens, which is still used today.
the first permanent marker.
The first Han emperor discarded
communism for socialism.
Daoism and adopted Legalism.
Legalism and adopted Confucianism.
all religion.
Who were the Aryans?
founders of Buddhism
the distant relatives of the Harrappans
Indo-European nomadic peoples who created a
new Indian society
the first religious leaders of India
The Buddha believed that suffering is caused by
not living according to the will and laws of
God.
spending money foolishly.
demons.
attachment to the things of this world.
____ is generally considered to be the greatest ruler
in the history of India.
Asoka
Mahotma Gondhi
Chandragupta Maurya
Sudras
The founder of the Han dynasty was
Liu Bang, a man of peasant origin.
Qin Shihuangdi, who began a program of
intense rice cultivation.
Zhou Shang, who claimed to have the Mandate
of Heaven.
Han Wudi, who added the southern regions of
Persia to the empire.
By 750 B.C., the ____, or city-state, became the
central focus of Greek life.
hoplite
agora
polis
pantheon
The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which
means that it was
ruled by the few.
ruled by a tyrant.
controlled by a popular vote.
ruled by a king.
Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?
a.
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Aristophanes
Herodotus wrote ____, a work commonly regarded
as the first real history in Western civilization.
The Republic
Oedipus Rex
Oresteia
History of the Persian Wars
According to Plato, individuals could not achieve a
good life unless
they lived in a just and rational state.
they were ruled by a good queen.
they lived a moral and pious life.
they strictly followed a vegetarian diet.
The conquests of Alexander the Great created the
Dark Ages, a time of great sadness for the
Greek people.
Hellenistic Era, an age that saw the expansion
of the Greek language and Greek ideas to the
non-Greek world.
Macedonian Age, a period of advancement in
art.
Age of Lawlessness, a period of extreme
cruelty and anarchy.
The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that
the Moon controlled the cyclic rise and fall of
the tides.
the earth is the center of the universe while the
sun rotates around it.
Earth was round and calculated its
circumference to be 24,675 miles (39,702 km),
relatively close to the actual figure.
Pluto is part of our solar system.
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were
immense paintings.
epic poems.
two immense ships.
statues of the gods.
Who said that “the unexamined life is not worth
living”?
Zenos
Aristotle
Socrates
Euripides
According to Greek religion, the gods lived
within the hearts of the people who worshiped
them.
in natural objects like rocks, trees, and streams.
on the moon.
on Mount Olympus.
According to the philosophy of Stoicism,
life could only be complete when it was
centered on the basic ideal of friendship.
gaining material wealth brings happiness.
happiness was the goal of life, and the way to
achieve it was the pursuit of pleasure, the only
true good.
happiness could only be found when people
gained inner peace by living in harmony with
the will of God.
A ____ is a form of government in which the leader
is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right
to vote.
polis
republic
dictatorship
Circus Maximus
Julius Caesar, the first dictator of Rome, was
the ruler of Ethiopia.
born in India.
assassinated
the founder of Rome.
The ____ was a period of peace and prosperity that
lasted almost a hundred years.
Pax Romana
Long Winter
Rubicon
latifundia
When the poet Juvenal said, “There’s only two
things that concern them: Bread and Circuses,” he
was talking about
the “barbaric” Egyptians and their foolish
lifestyle.
the Senate’s focus on feasting and camel
racing.
the Roman masses being distracted from
serious political issues by free grain and
entertainment.
the overly posh lifestyle of the landed
aristocrats, who did little else but feast and
watch plays.
____ became the first Christian emperor.
Constantine
Nero
Cicero
Julius Caesar
The Edict of Milan proclaimed
official tolerance of Christianity.
a reduction of taxes for the first time in a
hundred years.
Christianity as a crime punishable by death.
an immediate end to all religious activity.
Believing the Roman Empire had grown too large
for a single ruler, Diocletian
withdrew armies from many of its borders,
effectively shrinking the empire to a
manageable size.
divided it into four units, each with its own
ruler.
handed over power to the people, giving them
control of the military for the first time.
divided it in half and appointed Zeno as a ruler
with equal power.
The early development of Rome was most
influenced by the
Macedonians, who lived in huts and were
herders and farmers.
Greeks, who raised pets and passed on their
alphabet.
Etruscans, who launched a building program
that turned Rome into a city.
Campanians, who were advanced architects
and soldiers.
Under which emperor did Rome adopt Christianity
as its official religion?
Julius Caesar
Theodosius the Great
Nero
Zeno II
Rome’s first code of laws was the
Law of Nations.
Council of the Plebs.
Twelve Tables.
Tribune.
Rome defeated, then destroyed, Carthage in the
Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C.
Fourth Macedonian War.
conquest of southern Italy.
Punic Wars.
Large, landed estates in Italy were called
Puteoli.
latifundia.
ponderosas.
Neros.
Roman sculptors created statues that
aimed for ideal figures.
were realistic.
were only of male figures.
were only of female figures.
The ____ lived in the Southwest, in present-day
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
Anasazi
Hopewell
Inuit
Iroquois
The Mayan civilization was
the earliest form of utopianism known to exist.
a peaceful state that produced some remarkable
technological advances.
composed of city-states, each governed by a
hereditary ruling class.
destroyed by floods, leaving scant evidence of
its existence.
The ____ civilization is the oldest known Mesoamerican civilization.
Toltec
Hopewell
Mayan
Olmec
The Aztec practiced human sacrifice in order to
delay the final destruction of the world.
decrease the surplus population.
keep the commoners and slaves in fear of the monarch and his officials.
pay their debts to their enemies.
Since the Inca lacked a writing system, they
never attained a high level of cultural
development.
passed their cultural and religious history down
through elaborate smoke signals.
kept records using a system of knotted strings
called the quipu.
conquered the Mayans and adopted their
written language.
What was the language taught to the people
conquered by the Inca?
Spanish
Quechua
Pachacuti
Quipan
The Aztec initially accepted the Spanish because
they took the cross on the Spaniards’
breastplates to be the sign that Quetzalcoatl
was returning.
they wanted to obtain the advanced weapons
and armor the Spaniards possessed.
the Spanish had dentists who fixed their teeth.
the Spanish showered them with exotic gifts
that they had never seen before.
The Hopewell peoples are especially known for
the earth mounds they built.
the colorful beads they made.
the Grand Council.
the windmills they built.
The Great Peace created
one hundred years of peace.
an end to all violence.
an alliance of five groups.
new types of clans.
The Plains Indians used the buffalo for
ploughing fields.
beasts of burden.
pets.
food, clothing, tools, and shelter.
The Mayans created a sophisticated writing system
based on hieroglyphs, which
closely resembled Sumerian cuneiform, a fact
historians have yet to explain.
remains undecipherable to linguistic historians
to this day.
they believed was handed down to them from
the gods.
Spanish conquerors made no effort to decipher,
deciding instead to burn Mayan books.
One of the factors that contributed to the downfall
of both the Inca and the Aztec empires was their
lack of a natural immunity to diseases that the
Spanish brought with them from Europe.
peaceful ways, which left them unprepared to
make war on the Spanish invaders.
belief that their iron cannons would protect
them.
misplaced trust in the Spanish, who initially
promised not to try to conquer them.
Mayan cities were built around a central
fortress.
pyramid.
castle.
market.
The new Aztec kingdom was
a centralized state.
a city-state.
a democracy.
a collection of semi-independent territories.
The word Inca means
conqueror.
ruler.
mountain dweller.
beast of burden.
the study of human life and culture
anthropology
Homo sapiens
thermoluminescence dating
archeology
neolithic
the period before writing was developed
anthropology
Jericho
prehistory
archeology
neolithic
items left behind by early peoples
archeology
prehistory
anthropology
artifacts
the study of past societies through an analysis of
what people have left behind
anthropology
archeology
prehistory
neolithic
“wise human being”
artifacts
radiocarbon dating
systematic agriculture
Homo sapiens
Neolithic farming village near the Dead Sea
archaeology
Jericho
prehistory
Homo sapiens
“new stone”
radiocarbon dating
artifact
Homo sapiens
neolithic
enabled the emergence of civilization
city-states
the pyramids
abundance of food
Persians
basic units of Sumerian civilization
city-states
the pyramids
kingdom of Israel
Assyrian empire
dominated by men
Persians
Akkadians
Abundance of food
patriarchal
Believing in many gods
Code of Hammurabi
patriarchial
Kingdom of Israel
polytheistic
India’s first civilization
Han Gaozu
Harrappan
Qin Shihuangdi
Sanskrit
Aryan’s first writing system
Sanskrit
reincarnation
nirvana
Eightfold Path
belief that the soul is reborn after death
nirvana
Buddha
reincarnation
Legalism
“Enlightened One”
Han Gaozu
Qin Shihuangdi
Harrappan
Buddha
end of the self and a reunion with the Great World
Soul
Sanskrit
Legalism
nirvana
Eightfold Path
way to end desire discussed in Four Noble Truths
reincarnation
nirvana
Eightfold Path
Mahabharata
the force generated by a person’s actions that
determines how the person will be reborn in the
next life
kharma
Dao
yoga
bodhi
Hindu divine law
Dharma
four noble truths
Eightfold Path
reincarnation
trade route between Roman Empire and China
Han Dynastry
censorate
Silk Road
Qin Shihuangdi
had vast army made of terra-cotta buried with him
Qin Shihuangdi
censorate
Han Dynasty
dharma
less wealthy landholders, craftspeople, merchants,
and small farmers
insulae
Sadducees
plebeians
paterfamilias
a government by three people with equal power
plebeians
triumvirate
paterfamilias
insulae
head of the Roman family
plebeian
Sadducees
Vandals
paterfamilias
German tribe that sacked Rome
insulae
Vandals
Etruscans
Romulus Augustulus
deposed by Germanic head of the army, marking
the fall of the Western Roman Empire
insulae
Vandals
Etruscans
Romulus Augustulus
great landowners who became Rome’s ruling class
Diocletian
patricians
Visigoths
zealots
first Roman emperor
Augustus
Julius Caesar
Diocletian
Spartacus
author of the Aeneid
Spartacus
Diocletian
Julius Caesar
Virgil
gladiator who led a massive slave revolt
Spartacus
Diocletian
Julius Caesar
Virgil
